That would either have to be NES or N64 because my friends say it is.
What's the oldest system you know of?
Started by PhyreBurnz, Jul 27 2007 09:55 PM
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Posted 11 January 2009 - 04:48 PM
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Posted 12 January 2009 - 07:14 PM
Atari 2600 is the oldest I really know and use, because now i know other older systems.
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Posted 13 January 2009 - 08:04 PM
the oldest system know about is the odyssey.(did i spell that right?)
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Posted 14 January 2009 - 12:31 AM
To my knowledge it would be the Atari 2600. If anyone knows of older Id love to find out what it is. 
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Posted 14 January 2009 - 01:35 AM
my first video game console it's the atari
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Posted 14 January 2009 - 09:35 PM
No. The oldest were missile simulators. Then This one guy who was a nuclear engineer created a pong type game from a oscilliscope for entertainmen at an open house of a nuclear power plant.( It was on a CNBC Special; Playing to Win: Inside the Video Game Industry) Here is a page from Wikipedia about early video game hisory:1947The earliest known interactive electronic game was created by Thomas T. Goldsmith Jr. and Estle Ray Mann on a cathode ray tube[2] in 1947. The game was a missile simulator inspired by radar displays from World War II. It used analog circuitry, not digital, to control the CRT beam and position a dot on the screen. Screen overlays were used for targets since graphics could not be drawn at the time.[1] [edit] 1951On May 5, 1951, the NIMROD computer was presented at the Festival of Britain. Using a panel of lights for its display, it was designed exclusively to play the game of NIM; this was the first instance of a digital computer designed specifically to play a game.[3] NIMROD could play either the traditional or "reverse" form of the game. TV engineer named Ralph Baer was asked by the chief engineer at Loral to build "the best television set in the world". Baer came up with an idea for playing games on the television set, but the idea was turned down. [edit] 1952In 1952, one of the first video games ever made, OXO (also known as Noughts and Crosses) by A. S. Douglas. OXO was written for the EDSAC computer. The game was a Tic-tac-toe based game, played against the computer, and although OXO never gained any real popularity, because the EDSAC was available only at Cambridge, it was still a milestone in the history of video games. Christopher S. Strachey created a program on the Ferranti machine which, by the summer of 1952, "could play a complete game of draughts (checkers) at a reasonable speed". Arthur Samuel built on his work to make a checkers-playing program for the IBM 701, which ran at the end of the year. November 16 - Shigeru Miyamoto, creator of The Legend of Zelda, Mario, and Donkey Kong, and others, was born during this year. [edit] 1958Tennis for Two was a computer game developed in 1958 on an oscilloscope which simulated a game of tennis or ping pong. It was created by William Higinbotham. It was the predecessor of Pong, one of the most widely recognized video games as well as one of the first. Unlike Pong and similar early games, Tennis for Two shows a simplified tennis court from the side instead of a top-down perspective. The ball is affected by gravity and must be played over the net. The game was controlled by an analog computer and "consisted mostly of resistors, capacitors and relays, but where fast switching was needed – when the ball was in play – transistor switches were used". [edit] 1962 Spacewar! running on the Computer History Museum's PDP-1Spacewar! is released, one of the earliest known digital computer games. Conceived and written by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) students including Stephen Russell who programmed it, the Spacewar! game first ran in early 1962 on the PDP-1 donated to the school by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC). Early versions of the game contained a randomly generated background starfield. Later, a program called Expensive Planetarium (referring to the price of the PDP-1 computer) was incorporated into the main code, replacing the randomly generated star field. The program was based on real star charts that scrolled slowly: at any one time, 45% of the night sky was visible, every star down to the fifth magnitude. [edit] 1969Space Travel is written by Ken Thompson for a Multics system. [edit] 1971On 22 March, Ralph Baer files with the United States Patent and Trademark Office regarding a patent for "television gaming and training apparatus."[4] In June, Bill Pitts and Hugh Tuck form Computer Recreations, Inc.[5] Magnavox signs a license agreement with Sanders Associates regarding the Odyssey video game console.[6] Nakamura Manufacturing Ltd. adopts "Namco" as a brand name.[7] [edit] Notable releasesIn September, Computer Recreations, Inc. installs Galaxy Game, a version of Spacewar! for PDP-11 hardware and the first coin-operated video arcade game, in Tresidder Union at Stanford University.[5] In November, Nutting Associates releases 1,500 cabinets of Nolan Bushnell's Computer Space — another free-standing implementation of Spacewar!, and the first commercially released video game in the arcades.[6] Don Rawitsch, Paul Dillenberger and Bill Heinemann, students at Carleton College develop The Oregon Trail for a mainframe with teletype terminals.[8] Don Daglow programs the first computer baseball game on a PDP-10 mainframe computer at Pomona College.[9] Mike Mayfield develops Star Trek on a Scientific Data Systems Sigma 7 minicomputer.[10] [edit]POINTS were deducted for this post by The ArchbishopPlease refer to the forum rules to find out why your points were deducted.
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Posted 26 January 2009 - 10:50 PM
the atari 800 is the oldest i ownbut the magnovox oddessy is the oldest i know
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Posted 06 February 2009 - 02:42 PM
Magnavox Oddessy is the oldest home console. Oldest one I've played? Coleco Telstar!
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Posted 20 February 2009 - 03:43 AM
intellvision is one of the oldest and most boring lol.
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Posted 28 February 2009 - 04:06 AM
NES was what I started on at homeI think arcade games should count though
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Posted 02 March 2009 - 09:44 PM
If they did count (and don't they?), the first coin-operated machine came about in 1971. It's a few years older than the first model Atari.I think arcade games should count though
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Posted 02 March 2009 - 11:32 PM
Wikipedia isnt that trustworthy of a site for information. Anyone can just go on there and type stuff in.what do u mean know of. i think pong is one the oldest
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Posted 06 March 2009 - 08:44 PM
Ermm.. Magnavox? I think it's the first system to have pong, am I correct?
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Posted 08 March 2009 - 06:05 PM
commodore 64 i think 
though it's not only for playing
though it's not only for playing
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Posted 03 April 2009 - 12:52 AM
the oldest system i know is Atari but i dont know how old it is
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Posted 06 September 2009 - 01:46 AM
It's pretty much a toss-up between which came first, Intellivision or Atari. Both came out in the 70's. Another quick predecessor of the times was the Commodore 64 (we had one of those too!). But as for the very first? I honestly couldn't tell you which one it was for sure.
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Posted 19 January 2010 - 11:19 PM
Here's an early United States video game console history lesson:The oldest console to have its own interchangeable games was the Magnavox Odyssey from 1972, but the games used overlays on the TV screen for graphics and you had to follow the rules set in the instruction book. It was more like "board games on the TV." After this many Pongs or standalone games that hooked up to the TV came out.The first system to actually have programmed games was the Fairchild Channel F from 1976 and it had long yellow cartridges and it's even weaker than the Atari 2600 by a long shot. Only a couple colors can be on the screen at a time, which is usually a gray background, some color for the walls/borders, and one different color for the moving objects. I've got two models of the system. The original which seems to turn itself off after a few minutes of play due to RF interference and the later released second model which has no issues.The 2nd system is the RCA Studio II (1977) but it is weaker than the Fairchild but in black in white only. That one is just terrible.Then Atari 2600 was the third system to come out (1977), and the first one to do really well and become popular.After that in this order you have the Bally Astrocade (1978), the Magnavox Odyssey 2 (1978), the Mattell Intellivision (1979), GCE/Milton Bradley Vectrex (1982), Coleco Vision (1982), Atari 5200 (1982), Emerson Arcadia 2001 (1982), and the ultra rare Entex Adventure Vision (1982). Next Atari 7800 was designed in 1984 and test marketed to few people but held back from nationwide release until Nintendo and Sega both came out.Then finally the NES came out in 1985 and had something new to offer besides the simple arcade-like games, and Sega followed with the Master System in 1986.Alongside consoles there were many other gaming computers, the most popular of these being the Atari and Commodore brands. I'm not much of an expert on the computers than I am about consoles. Commodore 64 was very popular but before it was Commodore VIC-20 from 1980.The only major handheld that actually was a system with different games was the Milton Bradley Microvision from 1979, so this came out right about when the 6th game console, the Intellivision was made.
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Posted 27 January 2010 - 04:46 PM
Ha Ha ...Ithink iKnow . Ithink "SEGA" is oldest ..... If U remember "ET" in the field.
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Posted 30 January 2010 - 04:09 PM
The Odyssey is the oldest home game console I know of.
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Posted 24 March 2010 - 02:28 AM
The oldest game system that I've ever played on would be the Atari Jaguar or Sega Genesis.I've seen footage of some of the older systems from watching videos made by the Angry Video Game Nerd on youtube.But, I don't feel like those count. At least not for offering my opinion on.
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Posted 16 July 2010 - 11:30 AM
The oldest game console I tried was Famicom/ NES. But few years ago, I researched about history of video games as a part of our investigatory project and I realize that there are many consoles out there. Ever heard some video games that only operates in cathode-ray tube or analog computers? 
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Posted 30 October 2010 - 12:40 AM
I remember my Uncle bringing round a console to our house when i was a kid. I think it was made by Activsion and it had tennis, football or shooting with a light gun , it was the best thing i had ever seen.
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Posted 30 October 2010 - 04:20 AM
i'm pretty sure it's atari or something like that... one of those ancient systems that only had arcade-style games.... the oldest system i played is the nes
